Brain-computer interface startup Merge Labs, which Sam Altman co-founded, raised a $252M seed from OpenAI, Bain Capital, Gabe Newell, and others
Merge Labs, a company co-founded by AI billionaire Sam Altman that is building devices to connect human brains to computers, raised $252 million.
OpenAI's deals with Nvidia, AMD, Oracle, and others for computing power have topped $1T, dwarfing its revenue and raising questions about how it can fund them
Partners including Nvidia, AMD and Oracle have signed up to Sam Altman's huge bet on the future of artificial intelligence
OpenAI and AMD announce a deal in which OpenAI could take up to a 10% stake in AMD and deploy up to 6GW of Instinct GPUs over multiple years; AMD jumps 25%+
- OpenAI and AMD have reached a deal that could see Sam Altman's company take a 10% stake in the chipmaker
Court filings from in-ear hardware device startup iyO's trademark dispute lawsuit against OpenAI detail OpenAI and io's efforts to build a mass-market AI device
From iyO's home page: … Like I wrote yesterday, I'd never heard of iyO before. Alex Hughes / Tom's Guide : OpenAI court filings just revealed new details on AI device with Jony Ive Mahnoor Faisal / La...
Microsoft invests $1.5B in Abu Dhabi-based AI startup G42 for a minority stake, after G42 severed ties with Chinese suppliers; Brad Smith will join G42's board
The Emirati AI Giant That Just Got A $1.5 Billion Investment From Microsoft Chris McKay / Maginative : Microsoft Invests $1.5 Billion in UAE's G42 Matthias Bastian / The Decoder : Microsoft invests $1...
Source: Jony Ive and Sam Altman's AI device startup is in funding talks with Emerson Collective and Thrive Capital; Ive wants to raise up to $1B in funding
A mysterious company started by former Apple designer Jony Ive and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to launch an artificial intelligence-powered personal device …
Sources: Masayoshi Son seeks up to $100B for an AI chip venture to rival Nvidia; one scenario involves $30B from SoftBank and $70B from Middle Eastern investors
Welcome to Runtime! Today: why ridiculous sums of money … Pranav Dixit / Business Today : After Sam Altman, SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son joins AI chip race to challenge Nvidia dominance Rupam Roy /...
The Worldcoin Foundation rolls out its Worldcoin token, received after using an eye-scanning “orb”, in 35 cities; Worldcoin plans to retain 20% of its tokens
More than three years ago we founded Worldcoin with the ambition … Manish Singh / TechCrunch : Sam Altman's Worldcoin eyeball-scanning crypto project launches Binance : Binance Will List Worldcoin (WL...
The Worldcoin Foundation rolls out its Worldcoin token, received after using an eye-scanning “orb”, in 35 cities; Worldcoin plans to retain 20% of its tokens
Start-up co-founded by OpenAI chief faces regulatory pushback in US — Sam Altman's cryptocurrency project …
Elon Musk and Sam Altman's OpenAI partners with Microsoft, will use Azure for majority of its cloud computing needs
To build OpenAI—a new artificial intelligence lab that seeks to openly share its research with the world at large—Elon Musk and Sam Altman recruited several top researchers from inside Google and Face...